Students and Teachers Celebrate Pi Day

Math students and teachers celebrated Pi Day with a “Luck O’ the Pi-rish” theme and a variety of activities on Thursday. Pi (π), which is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, is observed on March 14 each year as the number begins with the digits 3.14.

At Columbia, students were assigned digits of pi and a color of the rainbow and given a square to decorate with his/her digit and color. Displays consisted of rainbows that were made up of the digits of pi.

Sophomore Benson Haley produced a Pi movie that was played during the morning announcements at Columbia High School.

Math teacher Gretchen Schulz’s Basic Geometry classes worked on an activity to discover pi by measuring the circumference and diameter of a cookie with shoestring licorice.

Students at Columbia High School also participated in a Pi Day Can Drive. For the past few weeks, cans of food have been collected and will be donated to a local food pantry.

Table Talk Pies donated snack pies that were distributed to Columbia High School faculty and staff and to administration and staff at the district office.

The culmination of the day’s activities at Columbia was a Pi Day Recitation Contest with prizes.